Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [that] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 2 | The most irritating assertion of the anti-downsizing lobby is that distributed open systems end up costing more because of all the hidden training and support costs . |
| 3 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 4 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 5 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 6 | Other news on pathogenesis is that fibroblast stimulating factor 1 , a cytokine first described in schistosomiasis , stimulates deposition of extracellular matrix ( D. Wyler , Tufts ) . |
| 7 | My concern is that increased external influence with accompanying loss of autonomy could lead to the demise of all that has been gained . |
| 8 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 9 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
| 10 | However , one suggestion is that acquired human retroviruses ( such as HIV ) might act as superantigens , and that this property could contribute to the T-cell abnormalities they produce . |
| 11 | Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge . |
| 12 | The rub is that measuring nanomolar changes in an ion , with minimal cell disturbance , has been a physiologist 's headache for decades . |